Stocking form



July 7, 1931 c i 1,813,848

STOCKING FORM I Filed Dec. 17, 1927 x17] firc I JMM? Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES T. GRIFFITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, INCORPORATED, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA STOCKING FORM Application filed December 17, 1927. Serial No. 240,847.

My invention relates to certain improvements in stocking forms, in which means is provided for locating the seam at the back of the stocking and at the center thereof when pressed.

The object of my invention is to so design a form that the seam can be located substantially at the center without using right and left hand forms. This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a side view of stocking form illustrating my invention;

Fig. 2 is a large sectional view on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view showing the location of the seam in the back of the stocking; and

Fig. 4 is a modification, showing the board beveled at the foot, as well as the back of the leg portion.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a stocking form. This form is made of metal in the present instance and is solid and flat, as shown in Fig. 2. The front edge 2 of the form is beveled on both sides, while the rear edge 3 is beveled on one side only. This. places the sharp rear edge 4 at one side of the center a: of the form so that when a stocking is placed over the form, the seam b of the stocking a can be located substantially at the center of the form, as shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 1, I have shown the back edge of the form 1 beveled from the heel 5 to the end 6, while in Fig. 4, I have illustrated a modification, in which the form 1a is beveled from the end 6a to the toe 7. The extent of the bevel will depend upon the type of stocking to be stretched upon the form.

I claim:

A stocking form having flat parallel sides and a single flat face along one of its edges, said single flat face extending from one to the other of said flat parallel sides at an acute angle with respect to one of the said parallel sides of the form.

CHARLES T. GRIFFITH. 

